I upgraded from an Athlon XP 2100+ to an Athlon XP 2700+, and I was having serious trouble with random restarts and "serious error recovery" messages. After running chdsk and several other utilities, I came to the conclusion that it was possiblu the ram (which is three pc2700 333mhz 512 ddr (1.5g total)).
ASUS A7V333 MoBo BIOS 1017 400W power supply.
After running a memory test program. I removed the RAM in one of the slots (leaving 1G in) and the problem seemed to go away, and memtest didn't report any more errors. I mixed and matched the ram to make sure it just wasn't one bad stick, but it always worked fine with only 2, and always had errors with 3, no matter what the configuration was.
so the only conclusion that I can draw right now is that there is some compatability error with over 1g or RAM. I have been all over the web all day long and have not come up with a definate answer. I've read things from voltage boosting to different slot usage, to memtest errors. Any help? Thank you very much!
ASUS A7V333 MoBo BIOS 1017 400W power supply.
After running a memory test program. I removed the RAM in one of the slots (leaving 1G in) and the problem seemed to go away, and memtest didn't report any more errors. I mixed and matched the ram to make sure it just wasn't one bad stick, but it always worked fine with only 2, and always had errors with 3, no matter what the configuration was.
so the only conclusion that I can draw right now is that there is some compatability error with over 1g or RAM. I have been all over the web all day long and have not come up with a definate answer. I've read things from voltage boosting to different slot usage, to memtest errors. Any help? Thank you very much!